Lafayette Blunt

Lafayette Blunt was a general of the United States.

Biography
Lafayette Blunt was given command of the 42,000-strong US 3rd Army in Laredo, Texas on the border with Mexico across the Rio Grande to the south. Blunt's army was strategically-placed in the case of a war with Mexico, and his army was later used to fight in the American Civil War in the southern theater against the Confederate States.